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Geologic Unit: Blanchester

Usage:

Blanchester Member of Waynesville Formation of Cincinnati group (informal) (OH)

(informal Cincinnati group is the usage of the OH Geol. Survey. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian; Richmondian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from Blanchester, Clinton Co., southwestern OH (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Cincinnati arch


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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